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My copy of this book is already showing signs of regular use - sticky tabs protruding here and there, notes in the margins, a few stains. While the book is genuinely beautiful and feels really good in your hands, the wealth is in the details. The first half of the book starts out with the basics and progresses through advanced medicine-making techniques all in understandable terms. Included here are instructions for concentrating your medicine and formulas for a variety of needs. More than just a basic instruction manual, this book encourages medicine makers to match the medicine to the person and the condition creating custom remedies as needed. But that doesn't mean you can't make gobs of your favorites to share with friends. The second half is a comprehensive materia medica. There are gems throughout, starting in the introduction where we are told which part of the yarrow plant to use to soothe tooth pain, to near the end where we're given two preparations of scullcap with differing uses.